Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Nitish Kumar is welcome to smirk, but Narendra Modi wave is sweeping Bihar

Narendra Modi consoles the family of Rajnarian Singh, a victim of the October 27 serial bomb blasts at Gandhi Maidan, in Patna on Diwali eve. Photo courtesy PTI.

The
fraudulent Left-liberal ‘idea of India’ now looks dangerously similar to the
‘idea of India’ ofjihadiswho were
allowed to bomb Modi’s Patna rally

Let it be said, and said right away, that if the alleged Indian
Mujahideenjihadiswho
planted more than 16 bombs in the stretch of Patna’s sprawling Gandhi Maidan
where Narendra Modi addressed a mammoth public rally on October 27, are guilty
of trying to trigger a stampede with catastrophic consequences, then Nitish
Kumar is guilty of not preventing a situation that could have been used by
assassins to target the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate.
The consequences of even a failed attempt on Narendra Modi’s life would have
been too horrendous even to imagine. It would be silly to suggest that the
Chief Minister of Bihar is not sharp enough to have known both the
consequences.

Yet Nitish Kumar not only failed to ensure adequate security
measures for the ‘Hunkar Rally’ of which he had known for months, he also
displayed amazing callous indifference after the bombings left six persons dead
and at least a hundred people injured. Hours after the rally Nitish Kumar,
while speaking to mediapersons, put on a little boy act, pretending great
surprise that something so dastardly should have happened and refuting valid
charges of lax, indeed absent, security measures at the venue. He also
asserted, firmly and repeatedly, that his administration had not received any
information from the Intelligence Bureau, alerting the police about a potential
attempt to target Narendra Modi. In the event, both his ersatz condemnation of
thejihadistrike
and denial of an IB alert have been proved to be as hollow as his cynical
politics of donning the ‘topi’ and the ‘tilak’ to fool Muslims and Hindus.

It is now established that the IB
did send a letter to the police chiefs of various States, including Bihar’s
Director-General of Police, on October 1, alerting them about the Indian
Mujahideen’s plans to bomb cities. That alert may have been ‘non-specific’, but
a subsequent message sent by IB on October 23 to Bihar’s Additional
Director-General of Police who heads the Special Branch was as specific as any
intelligence report can be. According to this message, Indian Mujahideen
operatives were planning to attack Narendra Modi’s rally. Two messages, two
alerts, yet Nitish Kumar says his administration had no information. We can
only surmise that he is telling a lie — blatantly, brazenly.

What serves to underscore Nitish Kumar’s brazenness, his almost
criminal callousness, is the subsequent silence he has maintained on this
issue. We haven’t heard a pipsqueak from him on why his administration, which
he counter-poses as the ‘Nitish Model’ to the ‘Modi Model’ of governance,
failed to take preventive measures, why only a handful of constables were
deployed to ostensibly ‘sanitise’ themaidan, why no senior police
officer trained in standard security operations was on duty on the day of the
rally, why there was no emergency evacuation plan in place even hours after the
first bomb had exploded at Patna Railway Station. If we are to presume that the
police kept him in the dark about the IB alert, we are yet to see him take
disciplinary action against the errant police officers. If we are to believe
that he is truly shaken by the turn of events, then it is grossly missing from
his crass and fanciful attacks on Narendra Modi.

Hence we can only come to the
conclusion that Nitish Kumar couldn’t care a toss whether the bombers succeeded
in their evil mission to trigger low intensity blasts, create panic among the
more than five lakh people who had gathered on Gandhi Maidan, and trigger
multiple stampedes that would have left hundreds dead. He couldn’t care less if
in the resultant chaos assassins would have found it easier to target Narendra
Modi in a classic replay of similar assassinations in other places at other
times. This was a copybook conspiracy that fortuitously failed —not for want of
effort by the conspirators but due to possibly their incompetence or, as some
would believe, the intervention of the hand of fate. Destiny has other plans
for Narendra Modi, plans which understandably unsettle those who think they are
destined to rule India, not the man who now rides the crest of a
never-seen-before popularity wave. There is no reason to respect such
individuals: They are undeserving of regard.

The intolerable cussedness if not complicity (that would be an
exaggeration unless evidence emerges to the contrary; it may be entirely
coincidental that he instructed his officers not to provide Narendra Modi with
a custom-built bulletproof SUV and jammers to neutralise remote-controlled
bombs) of Nitish Kumar is further heightened by the fumbling investigations by
the National Investigation Agency. It is stunningly unbelievable that a
potential key witness was allowed to escape from the NIA’s custody. It is
equally unthinkable that the NIA should come up with the lamest of all excuses
in defence of its appalling lapse in guarding Mehre Alam, who could have led
the investigators to the hideouts of the conspirators, by saying that he could
not have escaped from its custody as he had not been formally arrested. Which
would raise the question: Why wasn’t he arrested? Does the answer lie in Union
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde’s recent instruction that has leftjihadisfeeling
bolder?

We could also ask some discomfiting questions to the‘topi-tilak’-wallahChief Minister of Bihar whose smug
smile reflects his confidence that he shan’t be called to account for his
severe lapses, and that’s putting it mildly. We could, for instance, ask him as
to why he told the Bihar Police not to arrest Yasin Bhatkal after IB sleuths
picked him up at the India-Nepal border. The IB does not have the power to
arrest and needed Bihar Police to take Bhatkal into custody before bringing him
to Delhi. We could ask him why he has refused to allow intensive combing of
certain districts, for example Darbhanga and Madhubani, where Indian Mujahideen
cells are believed to be located. We could ask him why his party, the Janata
Dal (United), found it expedient to declare Ishrat Jahan, a Lashkar-e-Tayyeba
operative, as “Bihar
ki beti”. We could ask him what restrictions he enforced for
Eid-ul-Juha this year, corresponding to the restrictions he imposed on
community Durga Puja.

Sadly, these questions will not be asked because that would be
deemed to be politically incorrect, an assault on the secularism practised by
charlatans who occupy high office and, hence, an attack on the ‘idea of India’
about which fraudulent Left-liberals in the political establishment and the
establishment media never tire preaching, an idea that increasingly looks not
dissimilar to the ‘idea of India’ ofjihadis, some of
whom planted the bombs at Gandhi Maidan.

All, of course, is not lost. Or
else Narendra Modi would not have been in Bihar on Saturday, visiting the homes
of those who died in last weekend’s bombings, meeting their families, sharing
their grief on the eve of Deepawali. While Nitish Kumar smirks, Narendra Modi
has emerged the winner, winning hearts in Bihar and India.

Nice work Kanchan Da!!!! The Indian politicians who were not of the BJP for their own aspirations think that perpetuating the caricature of Mr Modi as an evil fundamentalist villain will automatically make them as a Secular Super God and as an atonement of all their sins. Cause obviously conducting a rally to express your thoughts cannot be allowed in a super liberal ,super secular, free speech hugging India and the Bihar CM will uphold the values of the same. This is the hyprocritical nonsense that the so called liberal brigade preaches in this country.

Narendra Modi is an embodiment of courage and valor. He is a powerful orator, a consummate communicator and a forthright thinker. He is a fearless fighter, a legend who understands how to capture the collective imagination of the people he wants to lead.

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